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In Which Pigs Take Flight
By Megan Garber Jan 16, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Charles Krauthammer, speaking and joshing on a panel about the coming presidency with fellow Fox-friendly commentators Fred Barnes and Mort... More
Chris Matthews Strikes Again
By Megan Garber Jan 16, 2009 at 09:02 AM
I'd thought Chris Matthews, via his excitement over the election of Barack Obama, was currently filled with Hope. But apparently... More
Crash
A loaded term with no place in today’s river-landing coverage
By Megan Garber Jan 15, 2009 at 06:25 PM
The salient fact of this afternoon's Hudson River water landing is that it involved no casualties. So far, US Airways... More
Breaking: Passenger Jet in the Hudson
By Megan Garber Jan 15, 2009 at 03:41 PM
There is currently a commercial airplane in New York City's Hudson River (it looks to be a small regional jet,... More
Johnny Jones 2.0
It’s not just financial: GlobalPost offers a new editorial model, too
By Megan Garber Jan 14, 2009 at 04:34 PM
Journalists, these days, have little reason for cheer. At a time when Romenesko's updates increasingly read as real-time obituaries for... More
The Atlantic v. NYT: the Times responds
By Megan Garber Jan 12, 2009 at 04:18 PM
The New York Times has issued a letter to The Atlantic's editor in response to Michael Hirschorn's controversial The-Times-May-Stop-Printing-by-May article.... More
Hardball
A veteran sports columnist meets—and shrugs off—Internet outrage
By Megan Garber Jan 9, 2009 at 04:36 PM
Corky Simpson is seventy years old. As if to prove it, he refers to himself as “a stubborn old mule”... More
Who’s Gonna Write Your Wild Horses?
By Megan Garber Jan 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM
So, it's now official: Bono, long rumored to be replacing Bill Kristol on The New York Times's op-ed page, has... More
How to Save the Times!
By Megan Garber Jan 9, 2009 at 09:13 AM
In response to The Atlantic's controversial New York Times Deathwatch column, the deep journalistic thinkers at 23/6 have formulated the... More
The Meeting of the Minds
By Megan Garber Jan 9, 2009 at 09:05 AM
Editor & Publisher provides the transcript of the intellectual discussion that took place earlier this week between Bill O'Reilly and... More
Apocalypse Now
The Times will die in May! But not really!
By Megan Garber Jan 9, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Plague. Pestilence. Stopped presses. Hold onto your horsemen, folks: It's the end of times! Or, at least, the end of... More
Sweet Charity
By Megan Garber Jan 8, 2009 at 03:50 PM
Seeing as how the government's in the bailout business these days, there's been talk--both serious and facetious--of the media industry's... More
Media Mattered
By Megan Garber Jan 8, 2009 at 03:09 PM
Eric Alterman moves his Altercation blog over to the The Nation. More
Wonders of the Web, Part 1,437: Crowd-Sourced Inauguration Speech
By Megan Garber Jan 7, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Are you one of those people who, when confronted with a "What profession, other than your own, would you most... More
Under Presser
Okay, maybe it was “the first governmental press conference ever held on Twitter.” Is that really a story?
By Megan Garber Jan 5, 2009 at 03:12 PM
It's a pattern familiar to the point of cliché: an international crisis—or, to be slightly more precise, a crisis that... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
